Bible Verses About Israel

Israel holds a special place in the story of God’s people, serving as a reminder of His covenant, faithfulness, and plan of redemption through Christ. Throughout Scripture, Israel represents both God’s chosen nation and His ongoing promise to be faithful to His people. These verses reflect God’s heart for Israel and remind us of His sovereignty, mercy, and unfailing love.

Bible Verses About Israel

Genesis 12:1-3 – “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.'”

Genesis 15:18 – “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.'”

Exodus 3:8 – “‘So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.'”

Deuteronomy 7:6 – “‘For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.'”

Deuteronomy 32:9 – “For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.”

Joshua 1:3 – “I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.”

1 Kings 8:53 – “You singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

2 Chronicles 6:5-6 – “‘Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel. But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'”

Isaiah 43:1 – “‘But now, this is what the Lord says—he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.'”

Jeremiah 31:10 – “‘Hear the word of the Lord, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.'”

Jeremiah 33:26 – “‘Then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.'”

Ezekiel 36:24 – “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.'”

Amos 9:15 – “‘I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,’ says the Lord your God.”

Zechariah 2:12 – “The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.”

Matthew 15:24 – “He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.'”

Luke 1:54-55 – “He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.”

John 4:22 – “You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.”

Romans 9:4 – “The people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.”

Romans 11:1 – “I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.”

Romans 11:26 – “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.'”

Galatians 6:16 – “Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule—to the Israel of God.”

Revelation 7:4 – “Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.”

Genesis 32:28 – “Then the man said, ‘Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.'”

Deuteronomy 14:2 – “‘For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.'”

Joshua 24:13 – “‘So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build, and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.'”

1 Samuel 12:22 – “‘For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.'”

2 Samuel 7:10 – “‘And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning.'”

Nehemiah 9:36-37 – “‘But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the good things it produces. Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.'”

Psalm 105:8-11 – “‘He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.”'”

Psalm 122:6 – “‘Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure.'”

Psalm 147:2 – “The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel.”

Isaiah 2:3 – “Many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.’ The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 11:11 – “In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.”

Isaiah 62:1 – “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.”

Jeremiah 30:3 – “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,’ says the Lord.”

Jeremiah 31:1 – “‘At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.'”

Ezekiel 37:21 – “‘Say to them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone; I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.'”

Hosea 1:10 – “‘Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” they will be called “children of the living God.”'”

Joel 3:1 – “‘In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,'”

Micah 4:2 – “Many nations will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.’ The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

Matthew 2:6 – “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'”

Luke 21:24 – “‘They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.'”

John 1:49 – “Then Nathanael declared, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.'”

Romans 9:27 – “Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: ‘Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.'”

Romans 11:2 – “God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:”

Romans 11:7 – “What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,”

Galatians 3:29 – “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Philippians 3:5 – “Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;”

Revelation 21:12 – “It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Revelation 21:14 – “The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”

These verses reflect Israel’s significance from its origins to its role in prophecy and the New Testament.

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